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African 5 string bowed harp, probably from Zaire or Congo. Pegs and strings are missing. The spoon shaped hollowed wood sound box is covered with skin and the arm is a carved female figure with a topknot coiffure. Middle 20th century. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. The instrument is 30" long end to end, and 5" wide. It stands 30" high on a custom museum stand. SEARCH FOR ANTIQUES

This object was used as a harp, a common musical instrument found among the Baule and many other peoples from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is sad to say that these instruments are becoming rare to find. They have been replaced in the main by the western style guitar. Such an instrument would have produced a light melodious sound when strummed. It would in fact be held upright on the lap with the strings facing the player with the carved figure on the sound box figuratively and metaphorically facing the...

Musical instrument, wood, with multiple strings of graduated length, stretching from the sound box to points on the female anthropomorphic neck.

Additional Information : A superb stringed musical instrument that belongs to the category of Chordophones or Harps. The instrument is in the form of a kneeling female figure holding the box with a male head with long neck. It has six strings.The sound box is made of wood and decorated with various motifs in relief on sides and the animal skin attached to the box is secured with wooden pegs. The offered harp comes from the Dogon from Mali.. Multi stringed harps are found among different people...

Harp 46 is an unconventional trio of harp, African drums and bass. Their World Fusion style combines Celtic, African and Jazz traditions, with nods to classical and rock. Their sound both respects ...

The Harp of Glory is a major medieval hymn sounding the praises of the Theotokos, from the heart of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in its Golden Age. It is a text hardly known in the Orthodox or Western churches, even though it is truly a religious and literary treasure of world significance. It approaches closely to the character and genius of the Byzantine Akathist to the Mother of God (which it seems to know in part) but is so profoundly rooted in a different indigenous experience that it surely...

ARC's Celtic Harp Magic: Harpers Hall Collection: The Gift features 20 interpretations, classics, and original harp compositions from nearly 30 harpists, including Deborah Bennett (? Rogha an Chail? n Rua? ), Vicki Parrish and Michel Robinson (? The Bonny Light Horseman? ), and the Telltale Harps (? Dennis Murphy's Lambs (Dennis Murphy's/Searching for Lambs)? ). While the familiar Irish and Scottish styles are duly represented, the collection also pays tribute to the classical, African, Latin, and...

Signed: 1994 Offset Lithograph Edition Size: 100 Print Size: 30x22 Ethnicity: African American

This is great sounding, great playing harmonica! The African Dousie wood comb provides a warm tone, the easily replaceable reedplates (our number HORP) and the traditional shape make it highly desirable for the blues honker as well as for players of other styles. If you want warm, authentic blues tone, this is the harp to blow! It has 10 holes and a wooden comb. Highly recommended.

First edition. Introduction by John C. Dancey. Red cloth, 276pp., frontispiece portrait. Very cheap paper browned, a little chipping to the edges of the first two leaves, light wear to the extremities of the boards, a sound, very good copy. An exceptionally uncommon book, and the only one published by this African-American author -- a 7,500 line epic poem on the black man in America.

This CD is the Fourth in the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture's Millennium Series, produced by Steve Grauberger. Recorded in 1980 in Ozark Alabama by Brenda and Steve McCallum. This is a newly digitized and revised release originally produced by Hank Willett with the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and Doris Dyen as the LP "Wiregrass Notes: Black Sacred Harp Singing From Southeast Alabama." Included are the songs in the original release plus 13 additional songs taken from original event...

Description This personalized angel Christmas ornament features an beautiful angel with a harp and the words "Peace, Love, Hope, and Faith" around the edge. Select from 9 multicultural angels, including Asian, African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian angels with a variety of hair colors. Personalize it with a name and year. 2.75" flat ceramic ornament comes with a gold cord for hanging.

This book consists of one very original piece set in F major. It is considered an etude for harp. The song is reminiscent of west-African culture, with its repeated notes and cross-rhythms. The rhythmic patterns and time signature changes keep the piece interesting and fun to play. It would be a unique piece to add to any music library. It is an intermediate level piece and can be played on lever harps.

Description: This charming arrangement of the popular African American spiritual tells the story of David tending his sheep, slaying Goliath, and serving as king while remaining "God's faithful child and shepherd boy." The lighthearted piano accompaniment imitates sounds of a harp playing and a giant falling before the anthem concludes with a playful partner-song. An optional scripture-based narrative provides a creative introduction to the piece, highlighting David's anointment as king and verses...

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, London based author and playwright Bonnie Greer seeks to demonstrate that Barack Obama's Presidency is what she calls a 'South Side Presidency.' And that it is only the South Side of Chicago, with its history and culture and institutions that could have sent an African American, in this day and age, to the White House. "Obama Music" is a mixture of anecdotes about her own growing up in one of America's most formidable Black communities, mixed in with...

Rheta is self-taught & also enjoys working in acrylics, oil pastels, mixed media & woodcuts. Her versatility in medium & subject matter (abstract to highly detailed realism), love for colour & texture are obvious in her work. Many of her works reflect African influences, be it the bright colours, design elements or subject matter. She finds variety essential in keeping her stimulated & driven.

In "A Language of Song", Samuel Charters - one of the pioneering collectors of African American music - writes of a trip to West Africa where he found 'a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere ...from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls in west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem'. In this book, Charters takes readers along to each of those places and others including...